Dumb ways to "fall off your perch"

Interdependent we are

True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word, action have real consequences throughout the universe.

Sogyal Rinpoche

What is and what was

I think I have reached that certain age when the past seems so much better than the future. It was and it is. I spend great amounts of time looking at slides, photos, letters and unfinished poetry. Lots of that. Hours pass and I am sitting in the middle of the floor surrounded by the history of my life. I begin to discard, my hand hesitates over the garbage bag….just one more glance. Despite my determination I am weak. Someone will have to clean up my life it should be me

~ GC Murray

Affection ~ I'll take it

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

– Dalai Lama

Your own light

The dancing Gods of India

Pashupatinath temple
Dawn is filled with smoke
We join the milkdrinkers
Wear no leather belts or shoes
Wet cow’s breath follows us
Gentle music of glass bracelets
Worn by women with kohl rimmed eyes
Filling their brass urns with sacred water
Pyramids of soft powders
Colors of egg yolks and blood
Await
The dancing Gods of India

~ Gwen C. Murray

Cambodia and young monks

Young monks at Angkor Wat, Cambodia ~ photos by Gwen C. Murray in 2011